It is early August 2020 and Joe Biden is about to announce his pick for Vice Presidential candidate any day now. The moment will be historic, as he has already committed to nominating a woman. Increasingly, calls have gone up for his nominee to be a woman of color. The sense of urgency intensified this […]
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Community Care and Social Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Resource Round-up)
As the USA becomes the country with the largest number of people infected with the novel coronavirus, we hope you and your loved ones are doing well and doing everything you can to stay safe and reduce transmission (and overwhelming our healthcare systems) during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. At the same time, this […]
I am here because injustice is here
The actual quote, by Dr. Martin Luther King, in Letter from a Birmingham Jail, is “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here” For today’s post, I just want to echo the call by a brilliant scholar and dear colleague, Lisa Schweitzer, and encourage you to read Letter from a Birmimgham Jail in its entirety, […]
Leadership Style vs Leadership Substance
Warning: Here comes another sports anecdote about leadership! As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a sports junkie and I watch a lot of live televised games, especially NBA and WNBA games (having played basketball for my high school team and intramural leagues in college), as well as the NFL, tennis, track & field, and more. That […]
Is There an Upside to Admitting Being Wrong? A Surprising Answer…
There is potentially a burgeoning movement afoot in the social sciences (dubbed “intellectual humility” in one article on this). The idea is to get researchers to admit when findings (often influential) of their previous studies turn out to be wrong. The ugly truth in academic research is that it’s often impossible to replicate the findings […]
Leadership in Institutional Pressure Cookers
ESPN’s Outside the Lines today was a special episode covering the biggest stories of the year. (As a side note, I love Outside the Lines — I’m a closet borderline sports junkie and binge on sports and sports news when I can. OTL in particular is a favorite of mine because it takes a deeper […]
